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5 favorites with Brandon Cobb

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Another morning on the Bassmaster Elite Series begins. Sunrises are a highlight of every morning. Each is different, just like every day. What a way to go to work. <p> <em>All captions: Craig Lamb</em>
Another morning on the Bassmaster Elite Series begins. Sunrises are a highlight of every morning. Each is different, just like every day. What a way to go to work.

All captions: Craig Lamb

This was how the morning began on April 7, 2019, at Green Pond Landing on Lake Hartwell. For Brandon Cobb, it began with prayer and later hoisting a blue trophy in front of his fellow South Carolinians on the shoreline of Lake Hartwell.
This was how the morning began on April 7, 2019, at Green Pond Landing on Lake Hartwell. For Brandon Cobb, it began with prayer and later hoisting a blue trophy in front of his fellow South Carolinians on the shoreline of Lake Hartwell.
Cobb came up with a different idea for choosing his five favorites for this gallery. “My favorite time of the morning is at the takeoffs.” Here are Cobb’s five favorite rituals and things for that magical time of day.
Cobb came up with a different idea for choosing his five favorites for this gallery. “My favorite time of the morning is at the takeoffs.” Here are Cobb’s five favorite rituals and things for that magical time of day.
<b>Favorite #5:</b> “This may sound weird but I really like waiting in line at the ramp drinking my coffee, getting ready for the day. If I’m staying just minutes from the ramp and I arrive and there’s no line, then it messes up my routine.”
Favorite #5: “This may sound weird but I really like waiting in line at the ramp drinking my coffee, getting ready for the day. If I’m staying just minutes from the ramp and I arrive and there’s no line, then it messes up my routine.”
<b>Favorite #4:</b> “The smell of engines running in the morning. It brings back memories of when I was a kid, fishing Saturday tournaments with dad. The air was so smoky you couldn’t see. The smell is different now, cleaner, with four-cycle engines and all, but it takes me back.”
Favorite #4: “The smell of engines running in the morning. It brings back memories of when I was a kid, fishing Saturday tournaments with dad. The air was so smoky you couldn’t see. The smell is different now, cleaner, with four-cycle engines and all, but it takes me back.”
<b>Favorite #3:</b> “It would be Mercer calling your boat number and name out in the morning. That’s just really exciting and gets me going.” And it’s even better when you get a morning dockside interview with the Bassmaster Elite Series emcee.
Favorite #3: “It would be Mercer calling your boat number and name out in the morning. That’s just really exciting and gets me going.” And it’s even better when you get a morning dockside interview with the Bassmaster Elite Series emcee.
<b>Favorite #2:</b> “It would be running 70 mph down the lake to your first spot.”
Favorite #2: “It would be running 70 mph down the lake to your first spot.”
<b>Favorite #1:</b> “My favorite thing of all on takeoff mornings is rounding the corner of a creek and seeing nobody on my first spot.”
Favorite #1: “My favorite thing of all on takeoff mornings is rounding the corner of a creek and seeing nobody on my first spot.”
“That’s the greatest feeling ever.”
“That’s the greatest feeling ever.”
Well, maybe. This isn’t a bad way to finish the day, either.
Well, maybe. This isn’t a bad way to finish the day, either.

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